Antonym: esteem, honor, respect. Similar words: contemplate, contemporary, contretemps, tempt, attempt, caveat emptor, content, contest. Meaning: [kən'tempt] 
n. 1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike 2. a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous 3. open disrespect for a person or thing 4. a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body.
n. 1. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike 2. a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous 3. open disrespect for a person or thing 4. a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body. 
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31. That sort of behaviour is simply beneath contempt .
32. They showed nothing but contempt for him.
33. I look on him/his behaviour with contempt.
34. The public is treated with contempt by broadcasters.
35. Such behavior will bring you into contempt.
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36. She looked at him with undisguised contempt.
37. He rushed forward in contempt of danger.
38. She threw a look of contempt at him.
39. Her contempt for foreigners was obvious.
40. He darted her a look of contempt.
41. He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
42. There was undisguised contempt in his voice.
43. He was oozing with contempt for us.
44. He was found in contempt of the order.
45. Such conduct is beneath contempt.
46. The firefighters showed a contempt for their own safety.
47. They looked on his behaviour with contempt.
48. She was jailed for contempt .
49. He was cited for contempt of court.
50. Mack felt a pitiless contempt for her.
51. She was held in contempt for refusing to testify.
52. She looked at me with ill-concealed contempt.
53. She looked at him with barely disguised contempt.
54. Her lip curled in contempt.
55. I had those fools in utter contempt.
56. The nobles treated the common people with haughty contempt.
57. She looked at him with immediate and undisguised contempt.
58. His humour depended on contempt for others.
59. He spoke with ill-concealed contempt for his audience.
60. He felt nothing but contempt for them.
More similar words: contemplate, contemporary, contretemps, tempt, attempt, caveat emptor, content, contest, context, contend, contested, contention, contentious, a bone of contention, contentment, discontentment, empty, exempt, preempt, pre-empt, on the contrary, tempera, temple, preemptive, exempt from, tempura, temporal, temporary, temperature, tempestuous.